Systems and methods for improving hearing performance by a hearing device
AssigneeSonova AG
InventorDaniel von Holten
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Abstract
An exemplary method includes a hearing system accessing one or more images of an environment of a user located at a position within the environment and wearing a hearing device to hear sound within the environment, determining a current hearing performance level being provided by the hearing device worn by user at the position, determining, based on the one or more images, one or more expected hearing performance levels at one or more other positions in the environment, and performing, based on the determining of the current hearing performance level and the one or more expected hearing performance levels, a hearing performance enhancement operation configured to improve the current hearing performance level.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- accessing, by a processor, one or more images of an environment of a user located at a position within the environment and wearing a hearing device to hear sound within the environment;
- determining, by the processor, a current hearing performance level being provided by the hearing device worn by the user at the position;
- determining, by the processor based on the one or more images, one or more expected hearing performance levels at one or more other positions in the environment;
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- performing, by the processor based on the determining of the current hearing performance level and the one or more expected hearing performance levels, a hearing performance enhancement operation configured to improve the current hearing performance level, wherein the performing the hearing performance enhancement operation comprises providing an indication of at least one of the one or more other positions in the environment where the expected hearing performance level is higher than the current hearing performance level.
A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for performing a process comprising:
- accessing, by a processor, one or more images of an environment of a user located at a position within the environment and wearing a hearing device to hear sound within the environment;
- determining, by the processor, a current hearing performance level being provided by the hearing device worn by the user at the position;
- determining, by the processor based on the one or more images, one or more expected hearing performance levels at one or more other positions in the environment;
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- performing, by the processor based on the determining of the current hearing performance level and the one or more expected hearing performance levels, a hearing performance enhancement operation configured to improve the current hearing performance level, wherein the performing the hearing performance enhancement operation comprises providing an indication of at least one of the one or more other positions in the environment where the expected hearing performance level is higher than the current hearing performance level.
A system comprising:
- a memory that stores instructions;
- and
- a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to perform a process comprising:
- accessing, by a processor, one or more images of an environment of a user located at a position within the environment and wearing a hearing device to hear sound within the environment;
- determining, by the processor, a current hearing performance level being provided by the hearing device worn by the user at the position;
- determining, by the processor based on the one or more images, one or more expected hearing performance levels at one or more other positions in the environment;
- and performing, by the processor based on the determining of the current hearing performance level and the one or more expected hearing performance levels, a hearing performance enhancement operation configured to improve the current hearing performance level, wherein the performing the hearing performance enhancement operation comprises providing an indication of at least one of the one or more other positions in the environment where the expected hearing performance level is higher than the current hearing performance level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.